2011/07/05 - Bluesky has been retired.

Bluesky Project Incubation Status

This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general
project status, look on the project website.

Description

The Bluesky Project is an e-learning solution designed to help solve the disparity in availabilty of education
between well-developed cities and poorer regions of China.
It had been deployed to 12 + 5 primary/high schools with positive reviews. We enter the incubation to revolve our system so that
poor regions around the world could share higher education resources.

Incubation status reports

Incubation work items

Project Setup

This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.

Item assignment is shown by the Apache id.Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the project to be incubated

date

item

2007-10-23

Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and
check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already
trademarked for an existing software product.

N/A

If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external
package, then ask the Apache project for the SVN module and mail
address names.

N/A

If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project,
then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.

....-..-..

If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the
fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the
incubator address/module names if accepted.

Interim responsibility

date

item

2008-01-12

Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can
be Mentors.

2008-01-12

Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.

2009-09-15

Give new committers access to the incubator SVN repository.
Revoke the inactive committers.

....-..-..

Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.html'

Copyright

date

item

....-..-..

Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF
been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the
package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.

....-..-..

Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

date

item

....-..-..

Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution
that is not under the Apache license, e have the right to combine
with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.

....-..-..

Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project
is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache,
BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially
the same terms.

Establish a list of active committers

date

item

2009-09-15

Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors
agreement.

....-..-..

Add all active committers in the STATUS file.

....-..-..

Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on
people.apache.org.

Infrastructure

Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking
system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).

....-..-..

Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Project specific

Add project specific tasks here.

Incubation

These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.

These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they
may change during incubation.They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and
completed in the request for incubation signoff.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and
acknowledged as committers on the project?

Are there three or more independent committers? (The legal definition
of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there
is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared
employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as
individuals, directly or indirectly.)

Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?

Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of
the committers?

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and
acknowleged by all committers?

Project Specific

Add project specific tasks here.

Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?

If graduating to a new PMC, has the board voted to accept it?

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of
the above tasks?